More about Olivia…

Olivia Alison is known for her kind, empathetic and positive approach. She graduated with a Master’s of Science in Clinical Social Work from Columbia University in the City of New York in 2004. She believes in a strengths based holistic approach, with an understanding that all components of ones’ life are interrelated. Olivia draws from several different modalities including: EMDR, Cognitive Behavioral, Solution Focused, Narrative, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Comprehensive Resource Model. She participates in regular continuing education classes, and believes in the importance of using evidence based practices. 

Olivia Alison has extensive experience with trauma, PTSD, depression, anxiety, divorce, infidelity, parenting challenges and children with sensory disorders. She has worked at The Boulder County Domestic Violence Shelter as a Bilingual Children’s Counselor and Women’s counselor, The Presbyterian Hospital Psychiatric ER, Jacobi Medical Center Intensive Care Unit, and Burn Unit, Weill Cornell College Employee Assistance Program Counseling Center, and for the Department of Social Services Child Abuse and Sexual Abuse Teams. She also worked as a primary therapsit for Reconnect Integrative Trauma Center in the Pacific Palisades, CA for nearly 3 years and is now running her full time private practice in Santa Monica, CA.

In her work as a therapist, Olivia focuses on helping her clients reprocess their past, and heal, so they may begin living more fully in the present. She uses a combination of techniques and experiences to guide her clients towards the transformations they are seeking. Clients are left with a stronger sense of self, access to new and more empowering perspectives, self love and life skills. Clients experience break throughs, and are left with positive changes which help them to face life’s challenges moving forward.  Olivia is passionate about her work, and strives to leave all of her clients feeling resourced, healed, hopeful and inspired. 

“Everything is energy and that is all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not a philosophy. This is physics.”

-EINSTEIN

Together we will take you from a life of survival to a life of possibility. Imagine designing the very life that you want.